2024 The Slide Into Paris: How it works

[dave g]

The Slide into Paris is a fantasy league focusing on the clay court tournaments leading up to Rolland Garros.


Your team will consist of 12 ATP players from the top 100 men on the ATP Tour(*). You will have 150 credits to spend on your 12-person team. The top 100 ranked players are divided into four categories, and each player is priced according to his ranking. You'll need to purchase three players from each category. We will be using the rankings from March 20 (post-Indian Wells).

Each player on your team will be awarded points depending on how deep he goes in each tournament. NOTE: Even if a player withdraws or retires from a match, you will receive full credit for the round that player reached. The next post in this thread shows the tournaments and the points which can be won.

The responsibility of finding out who will be playing which of these events is on you. For deadlines, we will post updates in this thread, as well as in the various threads for picking your initial team and making trades.

Now, do you think you've done a good job scouting players and you know for absolute certainty which players will be leading you to victory? Then go to TSIP 2024: Post Your Team HERE to register your team. After deciding upon an original, unique team, you may change this team as often as you need to, up until the start of the contest, by editing your original post. To see which players are eligible to be picked for your team, the third post in this thread indicates the player groups and costs.

Instead of one of the Category D players, you may pick a player ranked higher than 100 as Wild Card for a cost of 5 points. If you think you have spotted the next Rafael Nadal, but he is currently ranked somewhere in the 100's, you now have the option to put that player on your team. You may trade Wild Card players as you would any other player, but you are limited to no more than one Wild Card player on your roster for any given week. The Wild Card is optional. If you want to pick 3 players from the D group listing, you may do so.

No two contestants may have the same initial team, so your original 12-person team must be different from all other previously posted teams by at least one player. It is your individual responsibility to check the teams that have been posted and make sure yours does not exactly duplicate a team that already has been posted. We will do our best to check entries as they are posted to enforce this, but to save yourself some possible grief later on, we strongly urge each participant to check the teams that already have been posted and make sure your team is different to avoid disqualification.

If the contest has multiple players in the same category with the same last name, please clearly indicate which player you are selecting. If a player selection is ambiguous, then no points will be awarded for any weeks where that roster spot with the ambiguous name is active. If a trade is used with an ambiguous name, the trade will count toward the allotted number for the contest, in addition to that roster spot losing any points it might have earned.

You are allowed up to FIVE substitutions during the five-week contest. Substitutions can be made at any time after the first week begins, but a substitution will not go into effect until the following tournament. To make a substitution, sell a player back (adding their cost to your remaining credits) then simply buy another player. YOU MUST ALWAYS HAVE NO MORE THAN THREE PLAYERS PER CATEGORY ON YOUR TEAM AND YOU CAN NEVER HAVE SPENT MORE THAN 150 CREDITS for a given week. We will create a thread for trades once the contest is underway..

At the end of each week, you may see how you're doing on our scoreboard thread. Results will be posted as soon as possible after each week's competition is complete. The first scoreboard will be posted at the conclusion of the first week's tournaments.

As always, we strongly encourage chatter about the contest. To whine about your team, or commiserate with others about their teams, go to the post TSIP 2024: The Dirt Lounge.

Finally, if you have any questions about the contest, please don't hesitate to ask. We are here to help! To ask questions, please post to this thread, and we will respond as quickly as we can.

Your initial teams are due by the start of play on April 1, 2024 when the first tournament, Marrakesh, gets underway. No teams can be accepted after the deadline.

Best of luck to all, and thank you for participating!

[dave g]

Tournaments and Points

April 1 - April 7: Houston, Marrakech, Estoril
April 7 - April 14: Monte Carlo
April 15 - April 21: Barcelona, Munich, Bucharest
April 24 - May 5: Madrid
May 8 - May 19: Rome

Points:
250 Point Tournaments: Houston, Marrakech, Estoril, Munich, Bucharest
First Round 1
Second Round 3
Quarterfinals 12
Semifinals 22
Finals 35
Winner 50

500 Point Tournament: Barcelona
First Round 1
Second Round 3
Third Round 12
Quarterfinals 20
Semifinals 30
Finals 50
Winner 75

1000 Point Tournaments: Madrid, Rome
First Round 1
Second Round 3
Third Round 7
Fourth Round 15
Quarterfinals 25
Semifinals 45
Finals 70
Winner 100

Monte Carlo:
First Round 3
Second Round 7
Third Round 15
Quarterfinals 25
Semifinals 45
Finals 70
Winner 100

[ponchi101]

I want to see how many of us DON'T pick Rafa for Cat D.

[tenedab]

Thanks dave g for your very clear detailed post. I guess we are not doing the week before RG( Geneva and Lyon)

[dave g]

Thanks dave g for your very clear detailed post. I guess we are not doing the week before RG( Geneva and Lyon)

No, we are not doing the week before Roland Garros. I wanted to end the contest with a high scoring week. Adding the week before Roland Garros creates a fairly good chance that the medals are decided in Rome and that we would then have a week that did not have the ability to effect who wins which medals.

[ashkor87]

To see which players are eligible to be picked for your team, the third post in this thread indicates the player groups and costs.

? too early?

[dave g]

To see which players are eligible to be picked for your team, the third post in this thread indicates the player groups and costs.

? too early?

Creating the player list is one of, if not, the most tedious portions of running a fantasy league. While the "How it Works" starting post is mostly copy and paste, the player list takes a lot of work deleting all of the unused data from the ATP Tour website. The starting post takes about 4 minutes, and the player list takes at least a half hour. So, I tend to post the starting post, and then get around to working on the player list.

[dave g]

Player List:

Category A
Ranking, Cost, Name
1 30 Novak Djokovic
2 29 Carlos Alcaraz
3 28 Jannik Sinner
4 27 Daniil Medvedev
5 26 Alexander Zverev
6 25 Andrey Rublev
7 24 Holger Rune
8 23 Casper Ruud
9 22 Hubert Hurkacz
10 21 Alex de Minaur
11 20 Stefanos Tsitsipas
12 19 Grigor Dimitrov
13 18 Taylor Fritz
14 17 Tommy Paul
15 16 Ugo Humbert

Category B
Ranking, Cost, Name
16 15 Karen Khachanov
17 14 Ben Shelton
18 13 Alexander Bublik
19 12 Sebastian Baez
20 11 Adrian Mannarino
21 10 Francisco Cerundolo
22 10 Frances Tiafoe
23 10 Nicolas Jarry
24 10 Lorenzo Musetti
25 10 Jan-Lennard Struff
26 10 Tallon Griekspoor
27 10 Jiri Lehecka
28 10 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
29 10 Sebastian Korda
30 10 Tomas Martin Etcheverry
31 9 Cameron Norrie
32 9 Christopher Eubanks
33 9 Borna Coric
34 9 Jordan Thompson
35 9 Laslo Djere
36 9 Felix Auger-Aliassime
37 9 Arthur Fils
38 9 Matteo Arnaldi
39 9 Roman Safiullin
40 9 Sebastian Ofner

Category C
Ranking, Cost, Name
41 8 Aslan Karatsev
42 8 Jack Draper
43 8 Daniel Evans
44 8 Alejandro Tabilo
45 8 Alexei Popyrin
46 8 Miomir Kecmanovic
47 8 Gael Monfils
48 8 Emil Ruusuvuori
49 8 Zhizhen Zhang
50 8 Dominik Koepfer
51 7 Marcos Giron
52 7 Dusan Lajovic
53 7 Lorenzo Sonego
54 7 Daniel Altmaier
55 7 Facundo Diaz Acosta
56 7 Yannick Hanfmann
57 7 Fabian Marozsan
58 7 Alexander Shevchenko
59 7 Mariano Navone
60 7 Tomas Machac
61 6 Nuno Borges
62 6 Andy Murray
63 6 Flavio Cobolli
64 6 Roberto Carballes Baena
65 6 Aleksandar Vukic
66 6 Christopher O'Connell
67 6 Pavel Kotov
68 6 Max Purcell
69 6 Mackenzie McDonald
70 6 Jakub Mensik

Category D
Ranking, Cost, Name
71 5 Yoshihito Nishioka
72 5 Jaume Munar
73 5 Alex Michelsen
74 5 Arthur Cazaux
75 5 Luciano Darderi
76 5 Thiago Seyboth Wild
77 5 Botic van de Zandschulp
78 5 Taro Daniel
79 5 Pedro Cachin
80 5 Luca Van Assche
81 5 Rinky Hijikata
82 5 Arthur Rinderknech
83 5 Stan Wawrinka
84 5 Daniel Elahi Galan
85 5 Alexandre Muller
86 5 Marton Fucsovics
87 5 Federico Coria
88 5 Pedro Martinez
89 5 Hugo Gaston
90 5 Dominic Thiem
91 5 Jurij Rodionov
92 5 Brandon Nakashima
93 5 Constant Lestienne
94 5 J.J. Wolf
95 5 Juan Pablo Varillas
96 5 Luca Nardi
97 5 Sumit Nagal
98 5 Aleksandar Kovacevic
99 5 Thiago Agustin Tirante
100 5 Roberto Bautista Agut

[ptmcmahon]

To see which players are eligible to be picked for your team, the third post in this thread indicates the player groups and costs.

? too early?

How would four days before starting tournament be too early? People need time to make their teams.

[ponchi101]

I assume that he meant that saying POST 3 was too early (since some jerk used that post to write some idiotic opinion, instead of giving Dave time to post the lists).

[ptmcmahon]

Oh.

[dave g]

Oh. I had assumed that too early meant that it was too early to use the post Miami rankings. I had to use the post Indian Wells rankings, as opposed to the post Miami rankings, becuse there would not be enough time to pick a team before the tournaments start.

[dave g]

For Week 1 and team submission: both Estoril and Marrakech are on GMT. So, assuming that the first matches will start at 11:00 a.m. local time, the deadline is 11:00 a.m. GMT, 7:00 a.m. U.S. eastern time and 4:00 a.m. US pacific time.

[dave g]

Monte Carlo is GMT-1. So, if the first match starts at 11:00 a.m. local time, this will be 10:00 a.m. GMT, 5:00 a.m. US eastern time, and 2:00 a.m. US pacific time.

[Omegadoom]

Monte Carlo is GMT-1. So, if the first match starts at 11:00 a.m. local time, this will be 10:00 a.m. GMT, 5:00 a.m. US eastern time, and 2:00 a.m. US pacific time.

You should have specified whether Monte Carlo was a Sunday or Monday start. Round 1 main draw match play began this morning at 7:00 AM, so ALL trades now would count toward Barcelona, Munich, and Bucharest.